In this course, students will read Italian novels such as Alberto Moravia’s ‘Gli indifferenti’, Italo Calvino’s ‘Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno’, and Dacia Maraini’s ‘Donna in guerra’ with particular attention to the theme of resistance. The course will consider representations of fascism, patriarchy, and the bourgeois ethos and the ways in which writers envision the possibility of resistance to them. (Offered in even-numbered years.)
